Introduction:

transformational leadership creates a satisfactory and motivational work environment that drives the processes of change and innovation in an organization, which was also evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic; it was the health personnel who bravely faced and assumed this role and challenge.

Objectives:

to know the importance of transformational leadership in hospital management, to analyze the organization's response capacity according to the requirements of its hospital management and to diagnose the satisfaction of health personnel in their work area.

Methods:

systematic review of papers published between 2016 and 2021, the search was performed in articles with indexing in Scielo, Scopus, Science Direct, Latindex and others. Exclusion and inclusion criteria were applied.

Conclusions:

the analysis of the selected articles allowed finding different approaches and determining that leadership is of importance in management and decision making in a strategic way for hospital improvement both for the staff and for those who receive the care service.

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